Firm and Provider News

Day Pitney LLP and Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC are pleased to announce the launch of their joint Title IX Investigations Initiative. This initiative will allow the firms to provide both existing and new clients greater services in the wake of a growing number of Title IX investigations.

Fish & Richardson today announced that Adam Aquino, Sarah Jack, Juyoung “Jay” Kim, and James Yang were selected as the firm’s 2016 1L Diversity Fellows. Fish’s 1L Diversity Fellowship Program provides annual fellowships to diverse first-year law students across the U.S., and the four recipients were selected from over 420...

McNees attorney, Katherine Pandelidis Granbois, was recently elected to serve as United Way of Lancaster County's Chair Elect of the Board of Directors. Resident in the firm's Lancaster office, Granbois is Of Counsel in the Corporate & Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities and International Law practice groups.

UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158), a leading provider of international litigation support and big-data analysis services, announced today that its Board of Directors has named Andy F. Jimenez, CEO of UBIC North America, as a corporate officer effectiveMarch 1, 2016.

Thomson Reuters (NYSE / TSX: TRI), the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that it intends to purchase up to 3 million of its common shares through private agreements with an armʹs-length third-party seller. Any shares purchased under these agreements will count towards the company’...

Marks Paneth LLP, the largest US member of international association Morison International (MI) since January 2012, is delighted to announce that it has significantly expanded its international reach following the merger of MI with another leading association, KS International (KSi), to form Morison KSi.

The global law firm Jones Day announced that Ginger R. Burton has joined the Firm's Atlanta Office as a partner in the Real Estate Practice. Ms. Burton was a partner in Alston & Bird, LLP's Atlanta office.

Jones Day announced that Michael Conwayhas joined as a partner in the Firm's Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation (FILR) Practice, and will be based in its Chicago Office. He was previously a Chicago partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., where he served as Vice Chair of the Business Litigation and Corporate Services...

McNees attorney, Katherine Pandelidis Granbois, was recently elected to serve as United Way of Lancaster County's Chair Elect of the Board of Directors. Resident in the firm's Lancaster office, Granbois is Of Counsel in the Corporate & Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities and International Law practice groups.

KPMG LLP and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to apply IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology to KPMG’s professional services offerings. The agreement, including a focus on auditing services, builds on several recent successful KPMG initiatives demonstrating the promise of cognitive technologies in transforming the firm’s...

FTI Consulting, Inc.(NYSE:FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced that the Board of Directors elected Laureen E. Seeger as a director of the Company, effective March 7, 2016. Ms. Seeger joins the Board of Directors as an independent director,...

Gulfport Energy Corporation has priced an underwritten public offering of 14,700,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $25.25 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of $371.2 million. The 14,700,000 share offering represents a 700,000 share upsize to the originally proposed 14,000,000 share offering. Akin Gump advised Gulfport in the...

Clifford Chance has today announced two new members of the firm's Partnership Council, chaired by Senior Partner Malcolm Sweeting. Neeraj Budhwani and Jeremy Connick succeed outgoing Council members, Katherine Coates and Simon Davis who have both completed two terms. Kate McCarthy and Tim Wang were also re-elected to serve a second three-year term.
The...

King & Spalding advised Douglas Emmett, Inc. (NYSE: DEI) on the acquisition of four office buildings in West Los Angeles for approximately $1.34 billion, and also advised DEI on a joint venture with Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) to provide equity capital to fund the purchase of the properties.
Douglas Emmett plans to retain 20 to 30 percent of...

McGuireWoods partner Art Gambill has been elected as a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, an exclusive professional organization dedicated to promoting the field of commercial finance law. Gambill will be inducted April 9 during the organization’s annual meeting in Montreal.

McGuireWoods is expanding its Raleigh office with the arrival of accomplished partners Mary Nash Rusher, Jean Gordon Carter and Charles Case, who join the firm’s leading public finance, private wealth, and environmental practices, respectively.

Wolters Kluwer today announced that customers can now register for the second annual ELM Solutions user conference. The 2016 event, ELM16, will be held Sept. 20-22 at the Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World® in Orlando, Fla. For a limited time, ELM Solutions is offering a Spring Super Savings of $400 off the regular conference rate.

Fish & Richardson announced today that Dr. Tiffany A. Reiter, an associate in the firm’s Boston office, has been selected for the 2016 Pathfinders program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). This new program is designed to train early-career attorneys in critical career development strategies including leadership skills and...

Andrew S. Rusniak, an Associate in the McNees Estate Planning and Corporate & Tax practice groups, will serve as an instructor for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s course, Estate Planning for the Middle Market Client.

Fish & Richardson announced that Betty Chen, a principal in the firm’s Silicon Valley and Austin offices, has been selected for the 2016 Fellows program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). The selective LCLD Fellows program is designed to increase diversity at the leadership levels of the nation’s law firms and...

McNees Wallace & Nurick’s David M. Kleppinger has been elected Chair of the United Way of the Capital Region Board, effective April 1. David will serve a one-year term.
David, Chairman of McNees, served as Vice Chair for the 2012 United Way campaign and Chair for the 2013 United Way campaign.

“People from all over the world, businesses from all over the world, investors, really respect the opportunity the [Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court] provides for having the real expertise to adjudicate business matters.”
So says Kathryn Wylde, President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, in a new video...